Web Site Projects
Web Site Projects represent a project in VS for a website. You create a new Web Site Project by
choosing File Í New Web Site or File Í New Í Web Site from Visual Studio’s main menu.
A Web Site Project site is simply a Windows folder with a bunch of fi les and subfolders in it. There is no
collective fi le (known as the project fi le with a .vbproj or .csproj extension) that keeps track of all
the individual fi les in the website. You just point VS to a folder, and it instantly opens it as a website.
This makes it very easy to create copies of the site, move them, and share them with others, because no
dependencies exist with fi les on your local system. Because of the lack of a central project fi le, Web Site
Projects are usually simply referred to as websites, which is the term I use in the remainder of this book.